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Двойное молчание

2025
Materials: jacquard tapestry, cotton thread
155 см x 2 см
Category: textile
Item Number: 102931
100 000
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About the Work
About the Artist

The carpet was made from a collage called "No one writes to the Colonel" — it was a collage about loneliness. On the carpet, I turned the subject around. Here she is a quiet, silent dialogue. It's like two people we can't see are sitting in adjacent chairs, not seeing each other: one chair has its back to the other, but the internal dialogue between them continues. Double silence is a form of this dialogue.

On the "Double Silence" two completely different ornaments are superimposed on each other. One is modern, made of thin rulers and leaves, the other is early Art Nouveau. They are combined in order to create a more dense texture. There is also a third ornament on the carpet, almost invisible, on the gray-blue lower part. It's a small, small drip, like lights.

Born in 1958 in Moscow. He graduated from the Faculty of Artistic and Technical design of printed products of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. He worked at the Film Studio of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR as an apprentice animator, phaser, and caption artist (1976-1979). Since then, he worked as a designer at the Legmash Design Bureau (1881-1987).

Since 1981, he has been engaged in book and graphic design, and since the mid-1980s, he has been creating fonts. In 1996, he created the first full-fledged digital headset, FaRer. In 1997, he became one of the founders of the Letterhead design studio.

One of the most sought-after font designers in Russia: he has created or customized more than 500 font designs for various clients (the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, banks Menatep, Trust, Gazprombank, corporations BAT, McDonald's, Procter&Gamble, magazines Rolling Stone, Esquire, Vogue, InStyle, Ogonek, VkusVill, Magnit networks, etc.).

One of the participants of the initiative group on the introduction of the graphic symbol of the Russian ruble.

Gordon is an artist who works with text in a very wide range - from font creation to the most complex typographic projects, from font history to visual poetry.

In particular, he was one of the founders of the Slovo Center for Slavic Writing at VDNH.

He is the author of the first study on the forms of signs of the modern Russian alphabet ("A book about letters from Aa to Yaya" (MN.: Artemy Lebedev Studio, 2006, four reprints) and other books, including "on the language of composition" (MN., Artemy Lebedev Studio, 2021) and "Books about my Letters" (Author's edition 2019, republished by M. N., MYTH, 2022).

He is currently writing the book "Letters of the 20th Century" about the difficult but fascinating life of the Cyrillic alphabet in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation from 1900 to 2000.